As August 1st approaches and my deadlines loom, it’s easy for students and parents to go into the high alert phase. Common App opens for you, class of 2022. It’s time to add your colleges to the application and create/complete other applications for colleges not on the Common App, such as ApplyTexas and JMU. If you completed the Common App part of the Common App, much of this can be copy/pasted. The Common App essay should be in good shape, or nearly complete. Supplemental es

When students tell me that they would like to pursue a Computer Science major, I encourage them to consider digging to discover which parts of this field appeal to them most. These general areas are AI, Systems, Theory, and other Interdisciplinary Areas, and each of the categories holds many other specialized fields as well. Not surprisingly, Artificial Intelligence is often a popular choice because of its tangibility and promise. Recently, a freshman student asked me to sear

“Syracuse? Yes, I stopped for coffee there once driving back to my mom’s house in Canada. There were no students there, because it was Christmas. But wait! My cousin went to Syracuse, and he had a good time.” “So you would rate it based on that?” “Let’s give Syracuse some love. 3.9...no 4.0!” Here’s Malcolm Gladwell, in his new season of the Pushkin/Revisionist History podcast, interviewing a university president going incognito as “Dean” to expose the questionable methodolog